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Monday, 17 December 2012

Get your hair cut! Two new shops in Ramsgate.

The shop next door to my bookshop, which
has changed hands more times that I can remember in the last few years, has
reopened as a barber this time.

Interestingly their neighbour on the other
side is a barber that has been there for a long time, I hope this doesn’t saturate
the haircut business in this part of Ramsgate and cause them both to close.

Slightly further down on the other side,
the pet shop that closed some time ago has just opened selling washing machines
and other white goods.

I guess the problems of revitalising our
town centres are reflected here in King Street Ramsgate at the point where the
town contracted to after Westwood Cross, and now a very sensitive area because
of internet shopping.

What the solutions to our ailing town
centres are I don’t really know, my guess is that the change if it ever comes
will have to come from a mixture of government taking the taxation to a level
playing field and manufactures ensuring that their goods continue to be
displayed where people can handle them.

Here are the links to the pictures of Ramsgate carnival 201 on my camera card http://michaelsbookshop.com/717/id10.htm http://mi...

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